National Peace Council
http://peace-srilanka.org/
The National Peace Council (NPC) of Sri Lanka was
established in 1995 as an independent, impartial NGO
dedicated to building peace through cross-community
training and dialogue. NPC’s leadership comes from all of
Sri Lanka’s largest faith traditions, enabling the group to
garner diverse public interest for peace. NPC’s programming includes youth peace education, a mobilization unit
designed to build political will for peace, a research and
analysis unit that provides resources on the course of the
conflict, and a program specifically dedicated to promoting the role of women in peace and public life.
World Council of Religions for Peace: Sri Lanka Summits
http://religionsforpeace.org
From December 14 to 16, 2007, the World Council of
Religions for Peace hosted an interfaith peace summit
in Jaffna. A variety of national and international leaders
attended the summit, including those representing Sri
Lankan Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim traditions. Leaders held the meeting in the LTTE-controlled
northern part of the country after a similar meeting in
Colombo in June. This series of summit meetings came at
a particularly sensitive time, when both the LTTE and the
Sri Lankan government seemed determined to end 2002’s
ceasefire and attempt to settle the civil war by military
means.
Center for Policy Alternatives
http://www.cpalanka.org/
The Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is a major nonpartisan research institute that generates reports on a
wide range of policy matters relating to the Sri Lankan
Civil War. CPA’s annual social indicator polling provides
a wide array of data on public attitudes towards conflict
and ethnic diversity in Sri Lanka. Its conflict and peace
analysis unit assessed religion’s impact on various aspects
of the conflict, and its legal and constitutional unit considers many of the development challenges facing domestic and international agencies in the aftermath of the
2004 tsunami.